King v. Welch's Adm'r
King v. Welch's Adm'r
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
No authority is cited and none is known to this court which sustains counsel’s first proposition, which is, in substance, that a trustee to whom property is conveyed by -an ordinary deed, upon trust for a third person, vacates his office by removing from the state.
This court certainly knows judicially that there is no courthouse in the town of Crab Orchards. But we do^ not agree with counsel in their reading of the directions given in the judgment in regard to advertising the property ordered to be sold. The clerk has punctuated it so as to read as if it was written as follows: “At the courthouse door, and in the town of Crab Orchard,” etc., and that is no doubt correct.
We are not aware of any statute or rule of the common law which malees the removal of an administrator from the state operate ipso facto to vacate his office. If a personal representative shall reside out of the state he shall for that cause be removed. Sec. 19, Art. 1, Chap. 39, Gen. Stat.; Art. 1, Chap. 37, Rev. Stat. But until removed he remains in office and his right to it cannot be collaterally questioned.
The answer did not contain a counterclaim or set-off. The item
It is not important whether the appellant had the legal title or not. She had an unquestionable right to mortgage such interest as she had, and will not be allowed to defeat the appellee’s right by setting up her own want of title.
No discrepancy between the boundary .as stated in the amended petition and in the judgment has been pointed out, and we do not perceive any that necessarily renders them inconsistent with each other.
Judgment affirmed.
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